MoRTH to complete 26 green expressways in three years

The Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari informed that MoRTH has planned to build 26 green expressways in the next three years to make the country’s road network as good as that of the US by 2024. The new expressways will help people travel from Delhi to various places in the country in just two hours. They can also travel to Amritsar in four hours, Delhi to Katra in six hours, Delhi to Mumbai in 12 hours, and Delhi to Bengaluru in two hours. Earlier, it used to take 4.5 hours to travel from Meerut to Delhi but now people are coming in 40 minutes. Meanwhile, the 594-km long Ganga Expressway, a major project of the government, received environmental clearance last month. With this clearance, the construction of the project is expected to begin very shortly. As of now, 94% of the land for the six lanes project has been acquired for the access-controlled greenfield project and all the statutory clearances have already been put in place.